So this feels like the future: Amazon's X-Ray for Movies can tell what flick you're…
Read more Read more

The service is pretty awesome and it keeps you from wondering who that actor is on the screen or what you've seen him in before. X-Ray slurps intel from Amazon-owned IMDB, so every time you pause, you get basic detail on every actor on screen in that scene. Then you can go further and explore specific people, from reading their bio, to learning about their career, and finding everything else you'd ordinarily pause the TV show to look up on IMDB anyway. For now, X-Ray is only available for the following shows on Amazon Instant Video:

Justified

Downton Abbey

The West Wing

Sons of Anarchy

Falling Skies

American Horror Story

Grey's Anatomy

Doctor Who

The Walking Dead

Lost

Glee

Breaking Bad

Game of Thrones

Presumably X-Ray will be added to other shows soon enough. And if this is the future, we quite like it. [Amazon]